File photoMonsignor Stuart W. Swetland, the candidate still in the running for Seton Hall's next president. SOUTH ORANGE -- Seton Hall University’s stalled search for a new president got back on track today after the school’s board decided to interview the lone remaining finalist while continuing the hunt for additional candidates.

The search to replace Monsignor Robert Sheeran, the outgoing president, was put on hold last month after one of the two finalists for the job pulled out.

Rev. Kevin Mackin, president of Mount Saint Mary College in New York, told Seton Hall officials he changed his mind after his college’s board convinced him to stay in his current job. That left one finalist for the Seton Hall job — Monsignor Stuart Swetland, a professor of Christian ethics at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md.

Yesterday, Seton Hall’s board of regents met and decided to reopen the search.

"The search process continues, with the search firm continuing to identify candidates for consideration," said Thomas White, a Seton Hall spokesman.

The school also announced Swetland will visit the campus next Thursday and Friday for his final interviews with faculty, students and administrators.

Swetland is host of "Catholicism on Campus" on the cable television network EWTN. He also has close ties to Newark Archbishop John J. Myers, who worked with Swetland when both were assigned to posts in Peoria, Ill.

A new president is scheduled to be named before Sheeran leaves office June 30.